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by thworp 3y ago
They certainly are bad UX, proper alignment and consistent spacing helps immensely in visual recognition and flow.
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On the flip side if we overreact and destroy our food and logistics systems over it the suffering will be worse than climate change. If the right people gain power I could see them doing something totally misguided like banning fertilizer o
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Urea is very effective at moisturizing and is an ingredient in many heavy-duty lotions, so peeing is probably overkill but not without benefit.
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It goes back way further. For education specifically I'd recommend this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzsJT1snd8 as well as Sowell's book on Affirmative ACtion. The book Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes, I remember seeing an interview with a retired Ivy League professor (sadly don't remember who). He pointed out that many of the AA admitted students struggled with the intense demands of places like Harvard or MIT, but they would d
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It would be quite illustrative to have had the same experiment run in the late 19th/early 20th century with southern Italian and Irish peasant names.
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But it could be cultural. All the facts point to that being the cause. If there is so much racism against black people how could Nigerians and Carribean Blacks be some of the most prosperous ethnic groups in the US?
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The first and second generation descendants of dirt poor immigrants from Latin America are doing very well in the US (or at least better than African Americans). Some of the recent Caribbean and African immigrants even decry the toxic cultu
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I will recommend Thomas Sowell's writing on this topic, he has some very poignant (and somewhat depressing) points on AA and the wider black cultural landscape that surrounds it.
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by thworp 3y ago
+1 on that. Handling relationships like parent.child.other_children when writing your own SQL is not trivial at all.
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by thworp 3y ago
Yea, I thought as much when I saw canadian cars for the first time, coming from a country that also salts liberally (but not with magnesium afaik). Ten year old cars of all makes having completely rusted through wheel arches, just insane.
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by thworp 3y ago
Thanks for the deep link, the other one sent me on an infinite redirect loop. It is still puzzling to me, since they have "Trade, Travel, Accom. and Food" with the highest profit contribution in figure 2. However if you look at th
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I will suggest a different course of events: In the 19th century the welfare of common people (in the industrializing countries) started to increase exponentially. Education, property ownership, economic activity, nutrition, energy availabi
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What data are they basing their graph on? I've looked at quite a few quarterly reports by large corporations and I see the same pattern everywhere: Nominal sales up by ~10%, cost of goods sold up by ~20%, profit up by low single digit
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by thworp 3y ago
Would you say the same about all the other benefits of modern life (especially medicine, on-demand energy supply and the degrees of freedom)? Because those are a direct consequence of the kinds of social organization that followed from agri
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by thworp 3y ago
Since you seem to have some experience I want to ask: How much latency is added by routing and switching on a typical transatlantic journey? And a followup, are there any promising developments for moving the networking infrastructure fully
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by thworp 3y ago
If this article made you think about how to get better text rendering here are a couple of suggestions for devs: Many terminal emulators have greyscale anti-aliasing as an option or default, I know and have tested: - Windows Terminal (Windo
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by thworp 3y ago
Blaming a lack of food quality on capitalism is pretty rich. For a point of comparison, consider that even in socialist countries that didn't have famines, the availability and quality of food was orders of magnitude worse. The entire
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by thworp 3y ago
Unrelated to the killing, tying you medium of exchange to a physical commodity was ill-suited to a time where the global productivity growth was double-digits for 50 years. Limiting the growth of your exchange medium to the rate at which a
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by thworp 3y ago
This is a very valid point. However, the gold:<random currency> markets have been extremely liquid and somewhat transparent for the past thousand years. In the dark ages there was no way for someone to move the *global* gold:wheat cha
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by thworp 3y ago
You sort of tipped around the main difference: Real estate is illiquid and intransparent sure, but it is a non-fungible productive asset, you can get people to pay you rents because they need precisely your building. There are no comparab
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes that is one small dimension of why the dollar is valuable. But a far bigger part is the fact that using dollars enters you into the US financial (and by extension legal) systems which has been far more stable, reliable and predictable t
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes, this is the key dimension of the "currency" front. But bitcoin "advocates" (a term I'll use for diplomatic purposes) say that within a context that implies that is somehow a low bar to clear or just a consquenc
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by thworp 3y ago
No, this is an absolutely ass-backwards argument. To be a currency or a store of value or money (read: to be of any use) it has to be exchangeable for goods and services . Now we can see transactions on the blockchain but we have no idea
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by thworp 3y ago
Oh please, again with the "store of value" BS. I made an effort to look at the actual volume of bitcoin being traded in and out of the system (aka actual entries and exits, not just fraud-prone exchange swaps) in 2020 and I conc
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It's a matter of practice for sure. I started noticing that driving started becoming second nature around 40k km driven. Now (>150k driven) it's about 90% subconscious.
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While I appreciate and share the DIY spirit, some doubts have been creeping in recently. Firstly, in most cases we are just DIY'ing the final "craftsman" step of the work, we still depend on the materials being available. Sec
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by thworp 3y ago
I call BS. Look at this map of Canadian hydro power stations: https://hydro.canadiangeographic.ca/ Some of the largest stations by output are in northern Quebec (one of the most "middle of nowhere" regions in the
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I am honestly dumbfounded. If this is an application of bitcoin, why wouldn't we use that same excess energy to run a giant tesla coil? At least that makes some pretty arcs while wasting the energy. Just a thought: You could also sto
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by thworp 3y ago
> renewable energy load managment I'll pick this as the most absurd use-case. Every party in an electricity grid already has to trust all the other parties in the network. What advantage does a trustless distributed ledger have th

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